Word: mentions
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...survey by Ohio's University of Akron, Evangelicals now surpass even Roman Catholics as the largest sector of active churchgoers, though Catholicism has a vast official membership that counts all baptized infants. The Catholic Church remains powerful, but its esprit is being sapped by theological discord, not to mention declines in attendance at Mass, in parochial-school enrollment and in women's religious orders. The priesthood is attracting fewer and fewer new recruits, so that by the 21st century, many church functions will most likely be performed by laymen--and women. Meanwhile, Evangelicals are making inroads into the traditionally Catholic...
...Lingle, then a senior fellow in European studies at the National University of Singapore, wrote that ``intolerant regimes in the region reveal considerable ingenuity in their methods of suppressing dissent.'' Among several methods he listed was ``relying upon a compliant judiciary to bankrupt opposition politicians.'' The statement did not mention any country by name...
...document made no mention of it, but the p.r.i.'s stranglehold in the poor southern states of Chiapas and neighboring Tabasco may also be at an end. Part of the reported price for the accord's endorsement by the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution was Zedillo's promise to hold new elections in Chiapas and Tabasco, where opposition parties have protested, often violently, electoral fraud. But if a new election deal was struck, it immediately backfired. Worried about the threat to their dominance, p.r.i. supporters in Tabasco took to the streets, blocking highways and clashing with p.r.d. militants.The demonstrators...
...Gran Scena's brand of burlesque may owe much to Mel Brooks and the Marx Brothers, not to mention the late drag master Charles Ludlam. But it is also clearly an inside job--the work of connoisseurs who, even in falsetto and falsies, have a keen understanding of the magnificent excess that makes this art form so compelling...
Many students, however, feel that a certain amount of background--not to mention an extraordinary amount of motivation--is necessary to function in the class...